World War II veteran John “Harry” Kellers beamed from his folding chair Sunday morning, underneath a shade tent in the ...

The 830 LCTs were deployed for landing troops and tanks but others were converted to carry guns and rockets to be fired in support of soldiers.

Scores of young soldiers, many of them barely out of high school, died instantly after German machine gun fire mowed them down during the first wave of landings. Of the survivors from the D-Day ...

Andrew Whitmarsh, curator of the D-Day Story museum in Portsmouth, Hampshire, told the PA news agency: “LCTs played a vital role – there were over 4,000 landing craft and landing ships ...

A vital component in the success of the D-Day landings were the landing craft which carried the tanks and heavy guns across the Channel to back up the thousands of soldiers as they descended on the ...

Landing craft tanks played ‘vital role’ in success of D-Day The 830 LCTs were deployed for landing troops and tanks but others were converted to carry guns and rockets to be fired in support ...